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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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